An Amman court jails a Jordanian man for 10 years for plotting attacks on behalf of the Islamic State group against an air base used by the coalition fighting the jihadists.
The state security court finds the 52-year-old guilty of “conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts,” an AFP correspondent at the courthouse says.
The man — whose name was not released by officials — was arrested in November 2016 as he plotted to attack the sprawling Muwaffaq Salti air base in the country’s eastern desert, the staging point for aerial sorties by the US-led coalition fighting IS in Iraq and Syria, the court says.
It says the man had been in contact with IS operatives in Raqa, the group’s former Syria stronghold, who asked him to “carry out military operations targeting officers and members of the Jordanian military intelligence services.”
He had also been told to monitor the base and had passed intelligence to IS on its layout and how it was guarded.
— AFP
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